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LMN-3 synth

The LMN-3 is an open-source DAW-in-a-box by Fundamental Frequency.

Project Mammoth

A successor to the elephant42, 🦣 by @illness072 is on a whole new level in many ways.

Kebu

Cedutus created Kebu, a new Blackpill ortholinear PCB with multiple layout alternatives including 4 or 5 row options.

Dactyl Sygnus/Cygnus

A Dactyl-inspired sub-40% split keyboard: Dactyl Cygnus by scytile.

Lev's trackpad keywell board

A little bit of Dactyl, a little bit of Corne, and a *lot* of trackpad space: a unibody split prototype by levpopov.

Ortho Bakeneko65

StickersDrgn designed and shared a custom ortholinear-ish PCB to fit a Bakeneko65 case.

Custom unibody split

A custom 3D-printed unibody split keyboard by justsunone – with video tour.

IBM Model Pi

The "IBM Model Pi" by rengarett is simply a Model M converted via a Pi Pico and KMK.

Swept Corne

A wireless-only cross between the Sweep and the Corne: Swept Corne by Additional-Stock3711.

Poly Keyboard

The Poly Keyboard by thpoll has tiny OLED displays in each keycap to showcase the actual function of the keys.

Cast aluminum keyboard case

earth_hair made a moon-themed cast aluminum keyboard case for a design and manufacturing class.

Phase keyboard

Kyria stagger, Corne thumb cluster, Ferris-inspired electronics: Phase by mjpauly.

Rocksolid prototype

Rocksolid is a collab between tenstaana and fingerpunch.xyz: a mashup of their Chunky and Rock on keyboards.

Macropad dump

Three macropad projects have been published recently: the VoidPad 9S1E by Tuxic, the POSpad by _vastrox_, and Bitdrive made a case for the Spin.

Ergo S-1

The Ergo S-1 by Wizarddata is a wireless concave split keyboard with integrated wrist rest and free case files.

freaku4X

A 4x10 ortho with a rotary encoder and LCD: freaku4X by sporewoh.

Ki board

Another wooden board, this time with a surprising layout: groyer418's Ki board.

Model D

Recreating the Model F look and feel: the Model D is a 40% Buckling springs keyboard built by crahamson.

Badger 2040 keypad

Andreas Känner took Pimoroni's RP2040-powered e-ink display and put it on a macropad.

Cocot46plus

Aki27's cocot46plus is a monoblock angled mechanical keyboard with a beefy 34mm trackball, rotary encoder, and OLED display.

Dactyl TypeSafe

This wireless vertical Dactyl TypeSafe was designed and shared by tewtham.

gurt-portable

The wireless gurt-portable is Gurtmail's first keyboard design.

Nora

Nora is a family of low-profile narrow-pitch keyboards designed by Takeshi Nishio.

Multi-profile macropad

Jim Jackson created a macropad with customizable profiles read from an SD card.

Pee-two

Pee-two is a 2-key macropad with optional rotary encoder. Source files shared by pabile.

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